del.icio.us not acting so deliciously

del.icio.us not acting so deliciously: I wish the folks at Yahoo!, who now own del.icio.us, would get their act together. The service is down, which convinces me the service is not ready for prime-time for “mission critical” usage — and displays the downside of a Web 2.0 business model that depends on mashing up the content (RSS feeds or APIs) of others. I still believe in the model, but it’s based upon a potentially del.ica.te (buzzword-meme of the week) ecosystem.

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I forget how much I rely on these services, and these kind of outages remind me how much I take them for granted.

rex

You’re right. And in the old days when it run by “some guys,” I would have never complained about a “free” service. Now that Yahoo! is the owner and they’ve determined the value of hundreds of thousands of people using it is worth many millions, I’m not so forgiving.

Launched in August, 2000, RexBlog.com is the personal blog of Rex Hammock, founder/ceo of Hammock Inc., a customer media and marketing services company founded in 1991 in Nashville. Rex is also founder/helper-in-chief of SmallBusiness.com.